wax
Bedeutung (English)
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- Beeswax.
- Earwax.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- (informal) The phonograph record format for music.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- (slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
Concepts
Synonyms
bourgeon
increase up
Beeswax
beef fat
mutton fat
burgeon forth
process of waxing
cerin
waxy simoniz
Earwax
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/wæks/
Etymology (English)
table From Middle English wax, from Old English weax, from Proto-Germanic *wahsą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *woḱ-so-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Woaks (“wax”), West Frisian waaks (“wax”), Dutch was (“wax”), German Wachs (“wax”), Norwegian voks (“wax”); and with Lithuanian vaškas (“wax”), Proto-Slavic *voskъ (“wax”).
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